{"id":316,"date":"2023-09-15T15:26:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T19:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/andrewjelliotresearchlab\/?page_id=316"},"modified":"2025-05-19T04:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:03:04","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/andrewjelliotresearchlab\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approach and avoidance motivation are fundamental and basic to human functioning, and the approach-avoidance perspective is a highly generative and informative lens through which to examine self-regulation, personality, and social processes. Accordingly, our research group investigates a variety of different topics across diverse disciplines of psychology, using a multitude of research methodologies (laboratory experiments, longitudinal studies, prospective studies, and archival analyses).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Achievement goal structure and process<\/strong>: Examining the different ways in which individuals approach success and avoid failure in their goal pursuits, and the implications of differential goal pursuit for affect, cognition, and behavior.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Approach and avoidance social goals<\/strong>: Examining the structure of social goals, as well as the antecedents and consequences of pursuing different types of approach-and avoidance-focused social goals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Personal goals<\/strong>: Examining how individuals express the self through different types of personal goal pursuit, and investigating the similarities and differences in goal-wellbeing links across cultures.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Competition and motivation<\/strong>:\u00a0Examining how competition in all its forms (trait, perceived, structural) influences psychological processes and outcomes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inequality and motivation<\/strong>:\u00a0Examining the influence of income &#8211; and race-based inequality on perceived competitiveness, approach-avoidance motivation, and downstream outcomes (e.g., health, wellbeing).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meta-motivation and motivation perception<\/strong>: Examining the accuracy of our knowledge about our own motivation and others&#8217; motivation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"sectiondivider\">Our lab is comprised of graduate students in social-personality psychology, as well as post-docs and visiting professors, often from countries outside the US. We have ongoing collaborations with a number of other labs around the country and world. We can be reached by contacting Dr. Andrew Elliot at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:andrew.elliot@rochester.edu\">andrew.elliot@rochester.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approach and avoidance motivation are fundamental and basic to human functioning, and the approach-avoidance perspective is a highly generative and informative lens through which to examine self-regulation, personality, and social processes. 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